And so the question becomes, what you do in the meantime? And you go - if you're forever on the move, especially in the life of the mind; forever reading veraciously, writing, speaking, lecturing, trying to unsettle minds, trying to touch souls, trying to encourage and inspire, on the one hand, but also trying to unhouse and unnerve people, so that they have to reexamine themselves, society and the world on the others. There's tremendous joy in it.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

Education is soul crafting.

You see it even in our educational systems, where the market model becomes central. It's a matter of just gaining a skill or gaining access to a job to live in some vanilla suburb, as opposed to becoming a critical citizen concerned with public interest and common good.

There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.